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Further postal delays, still no-one cares
September 17th, 2009 | 
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Industrial action, also known as avoiding work
Significant delays in sending letters and parcels to the UK through the Royal Mail are happening again. While only London staff are involved in industrial action this week, there is rising fear over a looming national strike, causing mild to negligible panic among aunties and luddites.
Members of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) will ballot tomorrow in between mid-day bowls of Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut about whether to escalate their action to a national walkout.
While the details of why they are striking or if they even understand the implications of their facetious and consistent industrial actions remain unclear, one thing is certain: no-one cares.
Tags: employment, i call bullshit, ignorance, media, money, morons, opinion, royal mail, strikes | 
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Postal delays expected, no-one cares
These people have no idea what they're picketing about
Another fecking strike has been announced, this time by the Communication Workers Union. The union has accused Royal Mail of cutting employees’ pay and reducing services.
“The current cuts, bullying managers and ever-increasing workloads on a shrinking workforce cannot continue”, said a spokesman for the union, from a barstool in a Wetherspoon’s at 11am. Apparently postal workers, like the postal service itself, hate change of any kind and refuse to move forward with the rest of the world.
Snail mail suffered a 25% decrease in usage over the last decade, in a market where more people are opting to purchase all kinds of goods online and have them delivered by Royal Mail. This spurning is hardly mysterious: waiting for a letter by post is shit, and there are numerous new ways to correspond which don’t warrant discussion here.
The postal workers are not the only layabouts disrupting the daily running of the country for mere coins. Train drivers, lorry drivers, baggage handlers and so on: if they feel like staying home all day to masturbate over Loose Women, we all have to tut and shake our heads at the injustice of a negotiation that ended with them getting a pay rise of only 1% above inflation.
